Study Finds Democrats Given Preferential Treatment by the MSM
By Terry Trippany October 30, 2007 - 10:57 ET

A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy has found that the media coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign was more likely to be spun in a positive manner toward Democrats than Republicans. The study also found that the press coverage of candidates was in sharp contrast to what the public says it wants from campaign reporting by concentrating on the effects that events have on candidates rather than reporting on how candidates’ stances on issues will affect the electorate. (h/t Bookworm)

In other words, the media is both slanted to the left and under performing in terms of public expectations on election coverage.